LEDSiC project (8.7 MDKK, 2015.07-2018.12) is supported by the Innovation Fund Denmark (No. 4106-00018B).
Project description:
Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) light source is emerging as the future market leader in both indoor and outdoor lighting due to its high energy efficiency, good light quality, long lifetime, and good technical functionality like being a transmitter for visible light communication. This project is going to explore a new type of white LED, which uses fluorescent silicon carbide (f-SiC) as the wavelength conversion material. Compared to the widely used phosphors, f-SiC only contains earth-abundant material, is very robust, and a better substrate than Sapphire for the epitaxial GaN growth on top. Therefore, the new white LED based on f-SiC is going to further reduce the energy consumption and CO2 emission. In this project, the full potential of this new type of LED will be explored in different levels of materials, devices and modules oriented for applications in general lighting and visible light coummunication through the collaboration of top scientists from Europe and China, with involvement of industrial partners. It is expected that the new f-SiC LED will promote the adoption of the LED technology.
Project participants:
- DTU Fotonik, Technical University of Denmark
- Linköping University, Sweden
- University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
- Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Topsil, Denmark
A brief introduction of the project at the foundation's website can be found here.
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Project news:
September 2017: The research collaboration and achievement within the LEDSiC project has been reported by Linköping University (in English) and Elektroniktidningen (in Swedish).
September 2017: LEDSiC annual meeting was held at DTU, in conjuction with the '5th International workshop on LEDs and solar applications'. All the project partners attended the meeting and discussed about the research progress and the plan for the last year of the project.
September 2016: LEDSiC annual meeting was held at DTU. All the project partners attended the meeting and discussed about the research progress and future plan. A summary of presentation and discussion in the meeting can be found here.
(Front: Meng Liang, Yiyu Ou, Satoshi Kamiyama, Atsuko Minezawa, Xiaoyan Yi, Haiyan Ou, Jiehui Li, Yoshimi Iwasa, Shohei Matsuo, Weifang Lu; Back: Zhiqiang Liu, Valdas Jokubavicius, Philipp Schuh, Berit Herstrøm, Carsten Dam-Hansen, Junxi Wang, Paul Michael Petersen, Peter Behrensdorff Poulsen, Leif Jensen, Yi Wei, Li Lin, Mikael Syväjärvi)
April 2016: All the partners in Denmark meet up and discuss about the research progress achieved so far as well as challenges. Presentations can be found here.
September 2015: LEDSiC was officially kicked off at DTU in Denmark. 15 participants attended the seminar with a fruitful discussion. Some of the presentations can be found here.
(Front: Meng Liang, Berit Herstrøm, Li Lin, Jiehui Li, Haiyan Ou, Mikael Syväjärvi, Paul Michael Petersen; Back: Flemming Jensen, Peter Wellmann, Yiyu Ou, Satoshi Kamiyama, Stanley Lim, Ahmed Fadil, Yi Wei, Christian Gammeltoft Hindrichsen)